The Scullery Maid by Joseph Zettelmaier Staged Reading Saturday

Transporting. Timely. True.

Idle Muse presents a staged reading of

The Scullery Maid

by Joseph Zettelmaier

King Edward has declared an uneasy truce with

France, and he celebrates with his nobles in Nottingham Castle.

Unbeknownst to him, a murder plot is being hatched in his kitchen by the lowliest of his servants. Miriam the scullery maid has long blamed Edward for the death of her father, and she will see the king dead this night, even if it costs her her own life.

Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 3pm

at Rivendell Theatre, 5779 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660

Admission: $5 Suggested Donation

Includes a talkback with playwright Joseph Zettelmaier

Box Office: 773-340-9438 - [email protected] - www.idlemuse.org

Featuring:

Miriam - Caty Gordon

Dulcie - Morgan Manasa

Bess - Anne Marie Lewis

Pascal - Jim Morley

King Edward III - Dave Skvarla

Stage Directions - Nathan Thompson*

Directed by Nathan Pease*

*Denotes Idle Muse Ensemble Member

Joseph Zettelmaier is a Michigan-based playwright and four-time nominee for the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Award for best new play, first in 2006 for All Childish Things, then in 2007 for Language Lessons, in 2010 for It Came From Mars and in 2012 for Dead Man's Shoes. Other plays include Ebenezer, And The Creek Don't Rise, The All Childish Things Trilogy, Dr. Seward's Dracula, Snow Angels, Blackwater Ballad, Night Blooming, Point of Origin, and The Stillness Between Breaths. Point of Origin won Best Locally Created Script 2002 from the Ann Arbor News, and The Stillness Between Breaths also won Best New Play 2005 from the Oakland Press. The Stillness Between Breaths and It Came From Mars were selected to appear in the National New Play Network's Festival of New Plays. He also co-authored Flyover, USA: Voices From Men of the Midwest at the Williamston Theatre (Winner of the 2009 Thespie Award for Best New Script). He also adapted Christmas Carol'd for the Performance Network. It Came From Mars was a recipient of 2009's Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and won Best New Script 2010 from the Lansing State Journal. His play Dead Man's Shoes won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award in 2011. He is an Artistic Associate at First Folio Theatre, an Artistic Ambassador to the National New Play Network and an adjunct lecturer at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches Dramatic Composition.

Transporting - the Mission of Idle Muse Theatre Company is to deliver productions that address the relationship between the individual and the greater world. We believe that great theatre removes both audience and artist from their reality and takes to them to another world.

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